Acid jazz is going through hard times. The times that accompany any developing genre when it leaves the underground in order to achieve his “stardom” among the public. The audience in its bulk – these are the buyers of records that flood the halls of recording studios and shops. These are the defining moments for a young, new genre. But the ambiguity is in how it will develop, with whose

Grandmaster Melle Mel, as the main MC in The Furious Five, has the responsibility for some of rap’s first and greatest successes. Disputes led to that bands fracturing and afterward, Melle Mel released both solo and with other singers to different degrees of success and popularity.